Date: 1945
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of Hazel and Skunk Cabbage with identifying text, created to accompany "The First Flowers Of Spring" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations depict flower parts, including bracts, style, ovary, staminate catkins, spadix, spathe, stigma, and hooded sepal, with smaller illustrations of other members of the arum family.
Header: The First Flowers of Spring
Plants depicted from top to bottom:
- Hazel -- Corylus americana
- Skunk Cabbage -- Symplocarpus foetidus
- Other members of the Arum Family (from left to right) --
- Calla lily
- Jack-in-the Pulpit
- Green dragon
- Sweet flag
- Water arum
Extent: 1 sheet